May 9, 2020

In december 2019 I realized just how exciting photography could be; soon after I got my second hand Sony NEX 5T I felt I wanted to get into astrophotography. And I found a fully fledged telescope, with a motorized mount for 375 EUR (410 USD).

May 9, 2020

May 6, 2020

Wordpress was a great place for me to start my blog. It was easy to use, and had a beautiful post editor. However, issues arose around hosting it, mainly due to performance. So I decided to convert my blog to a static site using jekyll and host it using Netlify (free for small sites). And oh boy, was it not easy. But let’s start at the beggining.

Dec 3, 2019

My Secret Santa match is a work mate who is a yuge fan of the Fallout series. I remembered talking with him about how cool it would be to place a Bluetooth speaker inside of an old radio enclosure and listen to Galaxy News radio.

Nov 24, 2019

iTEC is a contest dedicated to pupils and students with an interest in IT. This was its 13th edition; over 200 participants showed up. It consists of a couple of short (~6 hour) challenges and 4 hackathons (web, mobile, game dev and embedded).

Nov 21, 2019

In order to heat my van I decided on buying a Propex HS2000 (https://www.propexheatsource.co.uk/heaters/hs2000) heater. It is efficient, consuming on average only 142 grams of gas / hour and it can run on LPG, which is quite common in Romania and in Europe in general.